The Calaveras Skull
In February 1866 miners at Angels Camp in Calaveras County brought up a human skull from forty metres down, beneath a bed of lava. Josiah Whitney, State Geologist of California and a Harvard professor, announced it as proof that people had lived in North America in the Pliocene. Locals were telling reporters almost at once that the skull had been taken from an Indian burial in a nearby cave and put down the shaft as a joke on the professor; Bret Harte wrote a poem about it. Radiocarbon dating in 1992 gave an age of about a thousand years — an ordinary late Native burial, with no relation at all to the lava above it.
Hinwil and Billy Meier's Pleiadians
From 1975 the Swiss farmer Eduard Billy Meier produced hundreds of sharp colour photographs of Pleiadian beamships hanging over the hills of the canton of Zürich. Some of the models turned up at his house: discs made from dustbin lids and toy parts, hung on thread. His portrait of the Pleiadian Semjase was traced to a frame from Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers — the woman is the dancer Michelle Della Fave. The dinosaurs he claimed to have photographed on a trip through time are copies of Zdeněk Burian's paintings from a book on Meier's own shelf.
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